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Akeel Bilgrami on identity, inner life and stereotyping
Interview with Akeel Bilgrami. Published : Jan 28, 2022 06:00 IST Jipson John Jitheesh P.M. COMMents 0 SHARE READ LATER Akeel Bilgrami. Akeel Bilgrami is an Indian philosopher of international eminence and influence. He graduated from Elphinstone College, University of Bombay, in 1970 and went to the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Thereafter, he moved…
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Across the Pacific, Indigenous communities lead a growing wave of sovereignty against ongoing legacies of Western colonialism in the region, from the assault on Māori rights in Aotearoa to the US and French military presence in wider Oceania. 7 November 2024 Ōriwa Tahupōtiki Haddon (Ngāti Ruanui), Reconstruction of the Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, c.…
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A reconstructed conversation with the great writer about science and the absurd. I had always dreamed of meeting Albert Camus and so was thrilled when he appeared at Lucey’s Lounge, a dark and yellowy lit bar in Brooklyn. The Algerian writer had graciously agreed, or so it seemed, to be interviewed about absurdity, the concept…
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Dear friend,Today, our delegation — co-convened by the Progressive International, the National Lawyers Guild of the United States, and the International Association of Democratic Lawyers — concludes its investigation of Israel’s systematic violations of international law with a clear, concrete, and urgent call to governments across the globe: now is the time for a total…
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Today, its modernist symbols—from the towering Open Hand Monument to the unused Pit of Contemplation—float like ghostly ideals. Published : Oct 28, 2024 18:36 IST – 6 MINS READ Prathyush Parasuraman The Open Hand Monument in Capitol Complex, Chandigarh. | Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons Symbols have a way of being rendered hollow when not inhabited…
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By Paul M. Sweezy (Posted Nov 06, 2024) Fascism, Political Economy, State RepressionLost & FoundFeatured This piece was originally published as a chapter in Paul Sweezy’s The Theory of Capitalist Development (Monthly Review Press, January 1942). ~ Speaking in general terms, fascism, as it exists in Germany and Italy, is one form which imperialism assumes in the age of wars of…
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